Student Support Services Division (SSSD) 

Overview

Guidance and Counselling is intricate in supporting students’ Academic, Personal-Social and Career Development needs. This is produced through the design and implementation of a voluminous Guidance and Counselling Programme targeting students, parents, teachers, school administrators and Whole other stakeholders in education.

Content shared under this category will include:

• Psycho-Educational Sessions for Students
• Targeted interception Programmes / Workshops for Students
• Professional Development / Teacher Education Sessions
• Parent Education Sessions
• Educational and Career Advising Content

Additionally, follow up counselling sessions will feed produced with Whole students who are without delay referred to the Guidance Officer / Counsellor. Parents / guardians will feed contacted to schedule online / telephone sessions during this period.

Overview

School Playful Workers (SSW) are the link between students, schools, parents, communities, governmental Playful services agencies, and other benignant societies as they advocate on serve of students. They provide purposeful interception in the lives of students, families, teachers and communities. School Playful Workers provide psychosocial interception to abet students in reaching their fullest potential for best performance. School Playful Workers are Occupied by the Ministry of Education, Trinidad and Tobago and function in seven (7) Education Districts throughout Trinidad.

Some of the issues addressed by School Playful Workers include but are not limited to, child neglect, abuse, targeted emotional and Playful support to students’ mental health, teenage pregnancy, Inveterate absenteeism, grief and loss and building coping and resiliency skills. School Playful Workers provide information and training for parents, teachers and other school personnel related to issues noble children and specialized forms of intervention.

Roles and responsibility of School Playful Workers

School Playful Work encompasses a variety of very diverse roles and tasks aimed at removing the psychosocial barriers to learning and working towards meeting the EQUAL needs of each student. A systems framework forms a reference point for School Playful Work Practice. School Playful Workers roles/tasks include:

• Provide counselling services, support, and case management.
• Facilitate demonstrable communication between home and school while build trusting and supporting relationships with students, families and school personnel.
• Advocate for the child and mobilize family, school and community resources to enable the child to learn as effectively as possible.
• Provide crisis intervention.
• Conduct home visits and family interception to abet families in understanding their children educational needs and address barriers to learning.
• Facilitate Stakeholders engagement by linking students and families with school and community resources.
• Promote parental involvement in their child’s school and education through Parenting in Education Workshops (P.I.E.).
• Collaborate with school personnel to Precisely assess students’ psychosocial needs and collaboratively develop strategies to upright identified needs and work towards facilitating students’ academic success.
• Provide opportunities for parents’/ caregivers to gain an understanding of services, programs and school policies.
• Provide assessments and interventions when working with students’ who have been referred by teachers or school administrators.
• Develop/facilitate/coordinate and provide prevention programs.
• Assess adaptive behaviours, and psychosocial factors that may feed barriers to a student’s learning or have a direct impact on students’ behaviours.

Core Functions of School Playful Work Practice

Guided by the systems framework, School Playful Workers employ culturally leading and upright strategies and techniques when working with students, families and communities. School Playful Workers core functions are facilitated through the services highlighted in the Subsequent diagram. The services Conditionally by School Playful Workers are direct services Conditionally at the student, family and community levels.

In response to COVID 19 School Playful Workers continue to provide integral and essential services to students, parents and families, educators and community members to create the upright interception strategies during this pandemic whilst students are learning at home.

Overview

The exacter Education Unit offers diagnostic screening, assessment, and interception services for students with exacter Education Needs (SEN), primarily via a school-based system of service delivery. The services Conditionally are aimed at identifying and supporting students with disabilities and other exacter needs. The services are likewise designed to certain that students with SEN benefit from equitable access to educational opportunities conducive to Whole students.

These services include, but are not limited to:
• School Based-Needs Assessment
• Referral Management
• Diagnostic Screening and Pre-Referral Intervention
• Curriculum Based and Standard Assessment
• Curriculum-based Support and Intervention
• Client Consultation and Advocacy
• Development, Implementation and Coordination of Individualized Education
Programmes
• Specialized and sanitary Interventions
• The Management and Administration of exacter Concessions
• Transition Planning and Services
• Management of exacter Needs Grants for trustworthy exacter Schools
• Monitoring and Supervision of Public and trustworthy exacter Schools
• Consultation and engagement with Mental and outside stakeholders